Any allegations that Greene is transparently working as a Russian agent are entirely unsubstantiated.

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    In all seriousness, it seems like a disproportionate chunk of the time that I see a House member doing something wacky, its from Georgia.

    Some years back, I remember discussions about the US reinforcing the Guam garrison, and Hank Johnson in Congressional hearings saying that he was worried that Guam was going to tip over and capsize.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q

    He’s still in office up there, but he’s at least pretty laid back. He replaced Cynthia McKinney, who was definitely not laid back and infamous for her own brand of conspiracy craziness (other end of the political spectrum from Marjorie Taylor Greene, but wacky as well).

    There has got to be something in the water in northern Georgia, because the “House Representative going bonkers” quota is pretty disproportionately represented in the news that I’ve seen out of there.

    And it’s not because I’m in Georgia or thereabouts and just seeing local political spatting – this is stuff that makes national news.

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      7 months ago

      Florida gets a lot of shit but our neighbors to the north are fuckin weird man. Atlanta and Savannah are cool but the rest of Georgia can get fucked

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      Hank was a good guy overall, but the tipping over thing remains possibly the absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say. Its just so damn stupid.

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      Yeah: go back to the nineties and the man arguably most responsible for the hyper-partisanship in modern politics was also a rep in Georgia…Newt Filthypigfucker Gingrich